276 Mr. ViGORs's awr/ 1)/-. Horsfield's Description of the 



1. Discolor. N.virldis; tœniii frontali, gidù,macuUs pectorali- 

 bus ahdominalibiisque , tcctricibus inferioribus, crissoqtie cocci- 

 neis ; capitis vertice, ahdù, pteromatibiisque azurco-cccrulcis ; 

 ptilis caudaque piirpurascenti-ferrugineis. 



Psittacus discolor. Lath. Lid. Orn. Siipp. p. xxi. 710. 6. 



Perruche Banks. Le Vaill. Hist, des Ferr. jd. 50. 



Red-shouldered Parrakeet. Jf hite's Journ. pi. in p. 263. Phill. 

 Bat. Bay, pi. in p. 269- Szcains. Zool. Illiist. pi. 6'2. Lath. 

 Gen. Hist. ii. p. 176. no. 90. 



One of our specimens of this species was brought by Mr. Brown 

 from the banks of the Derwent, where he obtained it in 1804. 

 It appears to be the bird from which the late ]\I. Kuhl took the 

 description of his Psittacus australis [p. 48. no. 74). lie refers to 

 a specimen in the Linnean Society's collection, and there is no 

 other bird in that collection which accords with his description. 

 We do not observe any material diti'erence between our speci- 

 men and the Psitt. discolor of Dr. Latham. The front is some- 

 what more yellow than is usual in the species ; and when the bird 

 is compared with M. Le Vaillant's figure, in which the front is 

 pure scarlet, a slight dift'erence appears, which may have given 

 rise to M. Kuhl's separating the two birds. In most of the 

 birds, however, which are considered to belong to M. Le Vail- 

 lant's species Perruche Banks, and Dr. Latham's P. discolor, a 

 greater or less proportion of this yellow marking is discernible. 

 M. Le Vaillant's figure appears to us too highly coloured. 

 Mr. Swainson's is an excellent representation of the bird. There 



join Palaornis by the osculant species Pal. Papiieiiiiis ; and fiftlily, the species of 

 various countries, known by the general title of Pernuhes proprement dits, including 

 Brologeris, V ., united to Lorius of the last subdivision by Psitt. J'riiigillaceiis, Lath., 

 and leading round again to the first subdivision of Parrakeet 3Jaccaus by some Ame- 

 rican species, whose bills gradually shortening, and becoming stronger, indicate an 

 approaching affinity to that group. 



seems 



